Boo Ya! Shooting Jill - again - definitely one of my favorite models!
It was wonderful to see her familiar face face through the view finder - it’d been a while (over a year). She’s the gal that I first shot when I got my lighting kit. When I was like, “uhmmm, where does this cord go.” Needless to say my photography skills have grown over the past few years, and so I’m not fumbling around quite as much as I used to. She’s great and always patient to my “hmms and oh’.” Also a special thanks to Tye Eyden of Tye’s Eye Photography for lending me the new pocket wizards. Love the flexibility with depth of field. Thanks again!
Anyway . . . enough jabbering . . . . So, she’s go this dress . . . A Badgley Mischka dress. It is stunning.
Jill Chodak looking gorgeous in a Badgley Mischka gown.
A stunning dress, a beautiful model. They had to be photographed. I love the flow and interplay of light and wind on the material.
Jill Chodak looking gorgeous in a Badgley Mischka gown.
We went for the Colorado theme . . . out in nature, at a park.
Jill Chodak looking gorgeous in a Badgley Mischka gown.
Of course, people lingered (and accosted her in NY when she wore it) as they encountered this women as she strolled through the park. It’s not an everyday occurrence here in Colorado.
Jill Chodak looking gorgeous in a Badgley Mischka gown.
And this was an exhausting shoot. So why not take a nap . . . on a log.
Jill Chodak looking gorgeous in a Badgley Mischka gown.
Isn’t that what every women does when in an elegant gown? Nap on log?
Jill Chodak looking gorgeous in a Badgley Mischka gown.
Diana Hermann, owner of Zi Zai,at work on her herbal recipes for skin care. Photographed on October 2, 2009.
I had the excellent fortune of working with Diana Hermann of Zi Zai creating pictures of Chinese herbs. It was SOOOO cool. All this really gnarly textured herbage (is that a word – prolly not) that made an excellent subject. Well then . . . better get a photograph of the legend herself.
I’ll jump at any chance I get to take an environmental portrait. Zi Zai is going to launch in a short bit. When it does, I’ll be sure to let you all know. Until then you can just love the picture of this awesome herbalist.
The dog, Sam, was a major inspiration on why to start Zi Zai her skin care company.
Anginet Page and I had the good fortune of doing a little mini fashion shoot a few weeks back. Our kids played in the grass while we pretended we knew what we were doing. Sarah Johnson who is a fabulous model was our first subject. Sara has a zillion - yes that’s a lot - of looks to give.
The shoot with Sara was thrown together minutes before we began shooting . . . Despite the last minute effort I think we got some great stuff. Our background was unforgiving that day, and I have so many, “I think I’ll use the sky as my background shots” that I had to flirt with the actual background too. Here was my favorite from the day.
Sarah Johnson.
And my wife liked this one . . . so I thought I’d post it too.
Sarah Johnson.
Then there was our darling Tara. The shoot with Tara morphed a bit from our original idea and I don’t think we got what we planned for, but regardless there was one frame that I thought was fabulous. Here it is:
Tara.
To both Sarah and Tara, you ladies were absolutely wonderful to work with and I look forward to working with both of you again.
Jennifer Lee and Kara Roy and run down Mountain Avenue during our October snowstorm. Love the dedication ladies.
Gotta love the snow days! I looked out the window late one night and oh my goodness, it was coming down. I emailed a few friends and what you know we had a photo shoot. Both are super athletes . . .
Jenifer Lee and Kara Roy (Olympic Trials Qualifier in the Marathon) met me and Tuscan for a 20 minute shoot.
Kara Roy extraordinaire! She ran in the last Olympic Trials for the Marathon. As you can see she’s dedicated . . .
By the end my fingers were frozen and screaming for warmth, but I think we made it a wrap with a few great frames.
Kara Roy and Jennifer Lee taking a quick breather before resuming their run down Mountain Avenue in a snowstorm.
Next to Starbucks. 1/2 caff Grande Mocha for my wife (she’ll do anything for a Mocha). Pick her up on lunch break and then to a local park. Oh what’d you know, Tuscan is ready for the snow too . . . . . . . .
Marcie and Tuscan in the snow.
Tuscan hated it. It was really windy, but again a few successful frames. Gotta love the snow. Weeks later my fingers work again and so I’m finally typing this post.
After our shoot for Runner’s World in Gunnison my wife and I had the great idea of taking a new route home by driving through Crested Butte.
Well once we got to the town, we realized the pass “out” of the town (aka, our way home) was still closed due to snow. Oh well.
At this point we figured we were going to get home late, so what’s the difference between really late. Off to explore the areas just outside of town. Here we did a quick model shoot with Marcie.
Marcie Glass outside of Crested Butte.
It was windy and cold . . . (just like Gunnison). The wind did catch one 1 umbrella and made it go tumbling through the meadow. I chased it for a 1/4 mile, but it eventually landed in raging torrent of a river - never to be seen again. Poor umbrella.
Marcie and Tuscan Glass outside of Crested Butte Colorado.
And it one natural light shot of the family.
Steve, Marcie and Tuscan Glass outside of Crested Butte Colorado.
Ron Z - Pilot Extraordinaire. And That not the plane we flew . . .
A few weeks back Ron Z the owner of the super-cool website company, Code Geek, invited a few friends to fly to Laramie to go have coffee from a Clover Press. Uhm, can you say “yes?”
Ron Z in action
Ron Z flew. As a physicist and flight instructor (with 18 zillion flight hours to his credit) he explained G forces with cool little diagrams with those arrows. You know the arrows . . . from your physics class. If you drew enough of them in all sort of directions at different lengths then maybe, just maybe your teacher would show mercy and give you a passing grade. But funny enough, since Ron Z doesn’t know me that well, he offered to let me steer. I immediately had vision of being a fighter pilot and cranked us into a barrel role - kidding, kidding, kidding - about that barrel role. I did fly! And it was super cool.
Machiato on the house.
Once we got to Laramie, we went to the coffee shop that has the “Clover Press.” Matt West, a man of refined taste enlightened us on the finer points of true coffee snobbery and the genius of the Clover Press. Even I, as a neanderthalian-folgers-gas station-coffee-drinker could taste the unique bouquet of flavors. I kid you not, mine had hints of blueberry. It was fantastic!
The aftermath.
And since I don’t know how to fly planes, anything about coffee I took a few pics of the Sunday excursion.
All credit in this shoot goes to Stephenie Falcone. A New York transplant of 8 years to Fort Collins – and a new mother – she was craving a reason to pull out her New York fashion and look sexy for a day.
With three other mothers we spent an afternoon photographing in Suburbia. The point . . . you can be a Mom, have a child, and still be sexy.
